Testify today. Before the hearing we will discuss the Postal Service with kevin gosar. Washington journal is next. Former Vice President biden. I am proud to carry the banner of our party into the general election with great honor and humility paid i accept your nomination for president of the United States of america. That is joe biden from last night. Hey did not mention the president by name, but he criticize the president on several fronts. He expressed aspects of what he would like to accomplish if he becomes president. For is washington journal today, august 20 first. Today we will take you to the Senate Hearing featuring the post mentor postmaster general. Heres how you can call us and let us know your thoughts, 202 7488000 if you support joe biden, 202 7488001 if you support the president and if you are undecided give us a call at 202 7488002. You can text us if you wish at 202 7488003, and you can tweet cspanwj. One writer says he gave his remarks absent a crowd because of the Health Concerns driven by the pandemic. He outlined his solutions to the pain of those struggling without a job or fearful of losing one. He offered an attempt and directly address those left behind by the deaths of covid19. His post roys while speaking about the president. And he said, quote, he keeps waiting for a miracle, never uttering his name, but i have news, no miracle is coming. The full speech available at our cspan. Org. Here is a portion. Biden as many have said, america is at an inflection point, a time of peril and also extraordinary possibilities. We can choose a path of becoming more angry, less hopeful, more divided, a path of shadow and suspicion or we can choose a different path together to take this chance to heal and reform and unite, a path of hope and light. This is a lifechanging election. This will determine what america will look like for a long time. ,ompassion is on the ballot decency and science and democracy. What we stand for, most importantly who we want to be is all on the ballot, and the choice could not be more clear. The wall street journal highlights that mr. Bidens remarks ended the convention in which his eye lies allies portraying the present as failing to meet the challenge of a president pit they depicted mr. Biden as empathetic and thoughtful and someone who would be a more conventional leader of the country. His acceptingon the nomination, and you can let us know on the lines if you support joe biden, it is 202 7488000, if you support andpresident , 202 7488001 if you are undecided, 202 7488002. We will do this for about an hour and a half today, starting off with diane from michigan, a supporter of joe biden. Good morning. What did you think of the speech last night . Waser i thought it wonderful. He shows a very human side of what government can be. We are not a business. We are people and the leadership is there to look out for the country and the people. I also would like to, with the postal hearing today, we need to protect our institutions. This administration and the president has been tearing down one after another after another. Biden, did youoe find more policy in the speech, more of the broad ideas of what he would bring to the presidency if he should become president . Caller he put his platform out there, so it is not hard to find what that is. To me it was his introduction to us as the people to what he would be like as president that i thought he sounded every president ial. He sounds capable. He gave a speech that i do not think trump would be capable of aspectoth from his moral and even being able to get it. I do not think he could pull it off because that is not him. From jeffrey is up next newport news, virginia, also a supporter of joe biden. Good morning. Caller good morning. Taking my call. I am a supporter of joe biden because i have no other choice. I believe he would bring back the actual professionalism of the office. He is a career politician. Whether is a Business People want to believe it or not. I believe as usual this time of year we hear about all of the good things that we are looking to do for the country, all the bad things that the current president has done for the country, but we are going to be hearing things that will not come true. I think it is more of a mixed message, and i am kind of disappointed at the whole visual of this convention. You if i may ask, you said had no choice. What did you mean by that . , so as he is the nominee i have to vote for him. I cannot vote for trump. I am not a republican. I do not believe in republican. Iews democratically i have to be able to support whoever the democratic nominee is. Host was there a democratic nominee that you purport preferred . Prefer Kamala Harris age, because she is a lot younger than biden and also she actually knows about , our justice system. She worked within the system so she knows more about criminal justice, the justice of peace, basically i felt she would be the one to take a, quote, unquote, progressive direction to the country. Mr. Biden is a lot older. I do not want to despair his age, but he has been in politics for a long time. He will bring back to the presidency, like i said, professionalism of the office which is to not try to run the singlehandedly, but to use the tools that are used in politics. Host you talked about the visual aspects of this convection convention. What did you mean . Caller im not one hundred percent into this mask thing. To me this is a nefarious message. Them of people have let mass media take their Critical Thinking away from them. I understand we are in an environment now that has a but you have to think. Anyone who stands in front of a microphone with a mask on on television, to me that is nonsense. Host i will leave it there with you going on to seattle, washington. , also a supporter of biden. I was glad to see trump elected as president because i is a democrat. Now they have no excuse to do what needs to be done. Someone who isr ready to care, criminal istice reform, even if it executive order. We want a president that is strong and does what he says regardless of how it is done. Care. You mentioned health what would you like to see done . All, i medicare for would like to see criminal justice reform, i would like to see all of it done like trump is doing. Host lets hear from a supporter of the president. I am just tired of the lies. I just have to go with trump for the Democratic Party is so full of it. I mean, the lies, it is a bunch of bull. Her, one of the White Supremacists that took over the demonstration was also part of the wall street movement. It is on film. He is working both sides. Host since you support the president , what is it about joe biden that you cannot support specifically . I think he really handled his children the way he should have. His boy now that he has that is alive is a womanizer, and he has a drug problem. It does not make sense. That lady from florida that rigged the primary for Hillary Clinton lost her job and that got hired by Hillary Clinton. Host that was joe from maryland. You can three lines. You may support joe biden or you may support the president and perhaps you are undecided. You can give us a call on the line that best represents you. From facebook, this is renda. She says i do not hate him, but i dont think he could lead like a president hold on, i am sorry about that. Also, off facebook saying i loved the speech. Unity ofa message that all americans, i love your plans for health care and education, elderly care and increasing the solvency of medicare. Again, that is from the facebook page. If we want to post their, you can do that. Texas, ato carry from supporter of joe biden. Hello . One more time. Lets go to bertha from virginia. A supporter of joe biden. Caller yes i am. Trump. Disgusted with but they were talking about the Postal Service, he know good and well, i am 65, why would he want to und the Postal Service when he know a lot of us it our medications, our checks monthly, and i think he did that is to make sure he get back in office. I am so glad it specifically about joe biden that you support . Caller that he went to get us together and lord knows he got to take care of covid19 and i think he can do it. I think trump have killed so many people could we got to get that under control. Host what this joe biden bring as far as getting it under control . Caller i believe he can bring us together. He is not for himself. He is out for us. That tells me that at least give him a chance. He was in there with president ins and outso the of congress. We got to get more democrats and the senate. Go to theou Washington Post this morning they have a fact check section piled by clint crisler glenn kessler. Five million americans infected by covid, more than 170 thousand americans have died. He writes that the claims are accurate when using raw numbers. The virus. However to measure countries on a level field experts look at cases per capita, according to one tracker the United States has the fifth high risk highest mortality risk, when looking at the 20 countries peru isy most affected, higher. Lets go to rebecca from california, undecided. Caller yes, i am undecided if bideny concern is wins, he gets up there to get the speech, he rips off his mask and its really Hillary Clinton. We could be getting Hillary Clinton back. That is my concern. I feel she just will not go away. Host what makes joe biden and Hillary Clinton similar . Caller mainly because they have rubbed elbows together too many times. Theres a lot that goes on there that does not get out into the public. It has more to do with their personalities and their history. Thank you. Policies, would you say they are exactly the same . Talking moree personality and policy in this campaign, or personal lives, going way more that way than policy. I am still waiting to hear policy. Ys they are too busy back biting each other. My concern is the weasel clinton. She is going to get back in there some way. That is it for me for today. Host that was rebecca from california talking about last speech from joe biden. All of it is available at cspan. Org. The Republican Convention will be next week. You can see that also on cspan. You can comment on it as well and on washington journal we have drew from new york. We have three voters in our home, to registered as and wee republicans, intend to continue voting as as we have done since kennedy. We vote for whoever we feel is the best person, and in this case it is joseph biden. The reason is he is honest and the fact that he will bring the country together. We hope that we go back to fiscal responsibility with concern about social issues and loving one another as brothers and sisters. Host if i may ask, are you the more moderate or the mark rutte progressive in your family . Caller i think we are for whom ever we feel is going to do the right thing, i am perhaps the middle one in the family. Host i asked because i think one of the things that came out this week is if joe biden becomes president he will have to take his policy ideals being pushed by more progressives to may become to their way of thinking. You think he is able to incorporate those things . Old, and im 89 years biden will have to straddle middleoftheroad. He cannot go to farleft or to to be the moderate considered person in order to hear this country. Ost thank you from san jose, california, a supporter of the president. Caller good morning. I think we all have to realize the Democratic Party of today is not what it was under kennedy. It is truly a socialist party. What scares me is that if they ever do get in power all three branches of government, they will take action to secure that millionrever, making 11 illegals u. S. Citizens, doing away with the filibuster, abolish the Electoral College, making the district of columbia estate, lowered the voting age to 16. Ofse would be the actions what a third word third world nation to do, the things they do to secure power, and it scares the hell out of me. It scares me that they tried to impeach a duly elected president over this russia hoax, but they did not even use the hoax after complaining about it for two years. Host as it stands right now as far as that reelection possibilities, where do you think that is . Silent i think the majority will come through. Joe biden will not talk about his socialist platform. He talks in generalities. If people knew how far the progressives want to push him and the deal he has made with Bernie Sanders, they would be shocked. He does not talk about it. Everybody knows he is losing it. That is what he spent so much time in the basement. I cannot wait for the debates. Host did you watch it last night . Caller yes. He is very good at using a teleprompter. Host that was steve from california. He mentioned the filibuster and the future. In row call today, this is a look at what the Senate Minority leader thinks what happens if joe biden becomes president. On the day the nominee delivered the speech, Chuck Schumer made clear that eliminator on the eliminating the filibuster would be on the table. He noted that if we get the majority, which god willing if we do and biden becomes president , then nothing is off the table, and what we will do it takeswill do what to get this done. That someul republicans might work with us but we will have to get it done whether they work with us or not. Have a supporter of joe biden, derek. Caller good morning. Truth andtells the trump is a liar. Why does he continue to keep saying that there is a conspiracy against him . There is no proof. He continues to keep saying that. They allow him to keep saying it. We know this guy lies print the only reason why is he is hoping to win is so he does not go to jail. Nobody talks about the deficit, the largest data deficit ever mounted by one term president. It is because he gave these big tax breaks to the big corporations. That is why you have the guy in charge of amazon who does not make does not pay one dime is this guy lies that he lies about everything. Everybody he hangs around goes to jail. Birds of a feather flock together. Host you said joe biden tells the truth. Give me an example. Caller he is honest. Most of the time he is honest. You check him out, when i say honest, he is not a guide that they are out to factcheck. Not need half a brain to know when this guy is lying. Here is joe biden again from last night, one of the scenes he addressed during his speech on the issues of racism. Biden Vice President will we be the generation to finally wipe out racism from our National Character . I believe we are up to it. I believe we already. Just one week ago yesterday was the third anniversary of the events in charlottesville. Remember what you saw on television. Torches,those lighted the antisemitic bile heart across europe from the 30s. Remembered the clash that ensued between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. Remember what the president said when asked, he said there were, quote, very fine people on both sides. That was a wakeup call for us as a country and for me a call. O action at that moment i knew i would have to run because my father taught us that silence was complicity, and i could never remain silent or complicit. At the time, i said we were in the battle for the soul of this nation. And we are. One of the most important conversations ive had this entire campaign, and it was with someone who was much too young to vote. I met with gianna floyd the day before her daddy was laid to rest. She is an incredibly brave girl. I will never forget it. When i leaned down to speak with her, she looked at me and said, daddy changed the world. America is ready to lay down the heavy burden of hate at last, and then the hard work of rooting out our systemic racism. Glenn kessler also highlighted a part of that speech in his story this morning saying joe biden has frequently suggested that the president said White Supremacists where very fine people but the reality is complicated. The president was criticized for not speaking more forcefully on the day of those clashes. Then in another statement the president actually condemned hate groups, those who cause ku klux, including the and and other hate groups, he added that the president muddied the waters a day later by also saying you had people, and i am not talking about the white nationalists because they should be condemned, but many people in that group, some very bad people and that group and we also had very fine people on both sides. That analysis goes on. We have a supporter of joe biden from illinois, cecilia. Caller i want to first say that san jose needs to stop drinking the koolaid. In january i said it should be joe biden and Kamala Harris because i think both of them are genuine and they both care about the people and they are both willing to invest in the people course nation, and of joe can get this economy working for everybody again, not just. Or the rich people i think he will work hard to eliminate systemic racism and entrenched sestak was him sexism we have in this country. I was just going to say ive been hearing a lot from people on cspan on facebook and they are all talking about how joe is just another millionaire, in it for the money. , but theillionaire only reason we know that is trump, joe biden, unlike posted 21 years of his tax returns. If you go to the washington times, there is a box there to highlight some of the career of joe biden. The judiciaryn of foreigne and the , and hes committee oversaw the confirmations of. Ome Supreme Court justices he helped blocked the nomination and itrt bork in 1987 goes to a section of his services Vice President , saying he saw the implementation of the economic stimulus package in 2009 and he ran point on the ukraine policy any time of tension with russia initially imposed the rage that killed osama bin laden. He said he was absolutely comfortable with samesex marriage, and he was awarded the medal of freedom by obama in 2017. This is tony from washington, d. C.